Jointly vs Simultaneously - What's the difference?
jointly | simultaneously |
Together, acting as one; collectively.
Occurring at the same time.
*
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title=
As adverbs the difference between jointly and simultaneously
is that jointly is together, acting as one; collectively while simultaneously is occurring at the same time.jointly
English
Adverb
(-)- They agreed to jointly raise the child, even though they were no longer married.
simultaneously
English
Adverb
(-)- The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}